CAT - Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript
2024-02-05 12:17:03 ET
Caterpillar Inc. (CAT)
Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript
February 05, 2024, 08:30 AM ET
Company Participants
Ryan Fiedler - VP of IR
Jim Umpleby - Chairman and CEO
Andrew Bonfield - CFO
Conference Call Participants
Rob Wertheimer - Melius Research
Michael Feniger - Bank of America
Tami Zakaria - JPMorgan
David Raso - Evercore ISI
Nicole DeBlase - Deutsche Bank
Mig Dobre - Baird
Jerry Revich - Goldman Sachs
Angel Castillo - Morgan Stanley
Chad Dillard - Bernstein
Steve Volkmann - Jefferies
Kristen Owen - Oppenheimer
Stanley Elliott - Stifel
Presentation
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Fourth Quarter 2023 Caterpillar Earnings Conference Call. Please be advised that today's conference is recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Ryan Fiedler. Thank you, and please go ahead.
Ryan Fiedler
Thanks, Abby. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Caterpillar's fourth quarter of 2023 earnings call. I'm Ryan Fiedler, Vice President of Investor Relations. Joining me today are Jim Umpleby, Chairman and CEO; Andrew Bonfield, Chief Financial Officer; Kyle Epley, Senior Vice President of the Global Finance Services Division; and Rob Rengel, Senior Director of IR.
During our call, we'll be discussing the fourth quarter earnings release we issued earlier today. You can find our slides, the news release, and a webcast recap at investors.caterpillar.com under Events and Presentations. The content of this call is protected by US and international copyright law. Any rebroadcast, retransmission, reproduction, or distribution of all or part of this content without Caterpillar's prior written permission is prohibited.
Moving to Slide 2. During our call today, we'll make forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. We'll also make assumptions that could cause our actual results to be different than the information we're sharing with you on this call. Please refer to our recent SEC filings in the forward-looking statements reminder in the news release for details on factors that, individually or in aggregate, could cause our actual results to vary materially from our forecast. A detailed discussion of the many factors that we believe may have a material effect on our business on an ongoing basis is contained in our SEC filings.
On today's call we'll also refer to non-GAAP numbers. For a reconciliation of any non-GAAP numbers to the appropriate US GAAP numbers, please see the appendix of our earnings call slides....
Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript